LITURGY. Peri ets hadar [miscellaneous prayers]. Amsterdam: Joseph Bueno de Mesquita [Jacob Teixeira d'Andrade], 1859. Printed on green paper. 8vo, 170 x 108 mm. (6¾ x 4¼ in.), original cloth, spine faded. Roest 697 (who describes a copy printed on yellow paper). For the very phenomenon of Hebrew printing and writing on coloured papers, see the pamphlet by Brad Sabin Hill, Carta Azzurra: Hebrew printing on blue paper. An exhibition in the King's Library, July-November 1995 (London: The British Library, 1995) p. [2]: "From the earliest days of printing, since the incunable period itself, deluxe copies of printed books were issued on parchment or vellum... Over the centuries, papers of other colours, such as green, rose, grey, yellow or orange, were occasionally used for printing special copies of Hebrew books... In a few places in western Europe, and mainly in Amsterdam, blue or coloured papers continued to be used for deluxe copies of Hebraica during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Hill also provides an extensive bibliography on the subject.
LITURGY. Peri ets hadar [miscellaneous prayers]. Amsterdam: Joseph Bueno de Mesquita [Jacob Teixeira d'Andrade], 1859. Printed on green paper. 8vo, 170 x 108 mm. (6¾ x 4¼ in.), original cloth, spine faded. Roest 697 (who describes a copy printed on yellow paper). For the very phenomenon of Hebrew printing and writing on coloured papers, see the pamphlet by Brad Sabin Hill, Carta Azzurra: Hebrew printing on blue paper. An exhibition in the King's Library, July-November 1995 (London: The British Library, 1995) p. [2]: "From the earliest days of printing, since the incunable period itself, deluxe copies of printed books were issued on parchment or vellum... Over the centuries, papers of other colours, such as green, rose, grey, yellow or orange, were occasionally used for printing special copies of Hebrew books... In a few places in western Europe, and mainly in Amsterdam, blue or coloured papers continued to be used for deluxe copies of Hebraica during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Hill also provides an extensive bibliography on the subject.
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